Archive for September, 2008

Hypoxia means the lack of Oxygen supply to the tissue.
Hypoxia is classified4 types on how it develops into a pathological condition:

Hypoxic hypoxia: It is the condition where there is poor availability of Oxygen to the pulmonary tissues.
Anemic Hypoxia: It is the condition of Hypoxia based on the Quantitative availability of Haemoglobin and the Quality of [...]

Tongue and Lip piercing are the new trend now in the young adults and with no age limit and no regulations governing the piercings it is easily available to everyone, it may look appealing but it is like inviting microorganisms into our blood stream as the oral cavity is richly supplied with blood vessels. [...]

Sucking on fingers or thumbs is healthy and normal when children are infants. Most children stop somewhere between two and four years of age. The effects of thumb sucking are usually reversible up until the age of seven, because children still have their deciduous (baby) teeth. If thumb sucking continues beyond the age of seven, [...]

If you ever came across a skull in your backyard while gardening and wanted to know out of curiosity weather it is a male skull or female, you have come to the correct place, here i am going to jot down some of the important differences between the skulls.
We can look at many aspects to [...]

Deglutition is also known as ‘Swallowing’,  it is the process by which the food taken passing through the oral cavity into the Gastrointestinal tract.
Deglutition is divided into 3 stages:

Oral stage
Pharyngeal stage
Esophageal stage.

The stages are divided into Voluntary and Involuntary stages
Voluntary:

Oral stage

Involuntary:

Pharyngeal stage
Esophageal stage

Oral Stage:
This stage is after mastication of the food is [...]